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System Design for Web Applications
Think in systems, not endpoints.
Caching, queues, replicas, sharding, and the architectural moves that take a web app from a few users to millions.
Modules
2
Lessons
4
Read time
43 min
Premium lessons
4
What you'll learn
- Reason about latency, throughput, and consistency trade-offs
- Apply caching at the right layer
- Choose between vertical and horizontal scaling
- Sketch system diagrams that map to reality
Prerequisites
- Built and deployed at least one full-stack app
Curriculum
2 modules · 4 lessons · 43 min total
- 12 lessons
Scaling Reads
- 01.01Where Caches Belong Premium10 min
- 01.02Read Replicas in Practice Premium9 min
- 22 lessons
Scaling Writes
- 02.01Sharding Strategies Premium13 min
- 02.02Queues, Workers, and Backpressure Premium11 min
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